Some off beat reads for the weekend:
Letter from Pyongyang (New Yorker)
The politics of manual scavenging (Rahul Pandita)
How the aristocracy preserved their power (Guardian)
Trump: The first White President (Atlantic)
Coffee Naps (Vox)
Pakistan has been lying to itself (Dawn)
The magical tattoo artists of Cambodia (SCMP)
Road Trip: Spiti Valley (Team BHP)
Spoof: Rahul Gandhi’s AI Speech (Great Bong)
Why Modi recalled the Kamaraj Plan (Gossip Guru)
Spoof: Kim Jong Un addresses the UN (The Onion)
Little known facts about Asha Bhosale (BI)
Photos: Inside Hrithik Roshan’s house (HP)
Ganeshotsav and Mumbai’s Decibel Divide (Anil Dharker)
Who really invented the Periodic Table? (ThoughtCo)
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